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A Christmas Gift from Marcus Aurelius

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 23, 2024 | 0 Comments
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“Whenever you want to cheer yourself up, consider the good qualities of your companions.”

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#AxisOfEasy 381: Ghosted By ChatGPT: The Chilling Tale Of Digital Erasure

By Mark E. Jeftovic | December 20, 2024 | 1 Comment
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Ghosted by ChatGPT: The Chilling Tale of Digital Erasure,
Ransomware Group Cicada3301 Strikes French Peugeot Dealership,
Optum AI Chatbot’s Public Exposure Sparks Privacy Concerns … this and more in AofE #381

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The Core Skill Going Forward: Frugality

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 19, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Speaking of lean years, it took the NASDAQ stock market index almost 17 years to recover its March 2000 high of 5,048.

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The Economy Has Failed the American People, But It’s Taboo To Say Why

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 18, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Addiction, illness and derangement are all immensely profitable, along with monopoly, cartels and collapsing quality.

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All Three Pillars Holding Up the Economy Have Cracked

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 16, 2024 | 0 Comments
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All three pillars propping up workforce spending are cracking. Plan accordingly.

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#AxisOfEasy 380: Hackers Exploit Job Seekers with Advanced Banking Trojan

By Mark E. Jeftovic | December 13, 2024 | 2 Comments
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Hackers Exploit Job Seekers with Advanced Banking Trojan,
US Shuts Down $100M Censorship Program Amid Legal Battles,
Massive AWS Credential Theft Exposes Cybersecurity Weaknesses … this and more in AofE #380

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Truth, Beauty and the Unseen Craftsperson

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 13, 2024 | 0 Comments
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I think of Bill whenever the breeze brings his chimes to life.

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The Big Shining Lie: We’re Better Off Now–No, We’re Poorer, Much Poorer

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 11, 2024 | 0 Comments
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This is proof-positive we’re not just poorer now than we were 40 years ago, we’re much, much poorer.

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Grey Swans Are Circling

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 9, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The lifestyle of a stable New Gilded Age is out of stock.

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What Happened to Integrity and Honor?

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 6, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The hope here is that facing the reality of moral collapse frees us of the delusion that fiddling with technocratic financial abstractions and policy tweaks can reverse moral collapse.

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Fix This or Nothing Else Matters

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 3, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The top 10% are the dog sipping a drink as the cafe burns down, saying “this is fine.”

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#AxisOfEasy 378: Justice Department Targets Google Monopoly With Breakup Proposal

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 29, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Justice Department Targets Google Monopoly with Breakup Proposal,
Russian Hackers Exploit Firefox and Windows in Sophisticated Attack,
Bootkitty Threat Highlights Growing Risks for Linux Systems … this and more in AofE #378

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Really Authentic Authenticity Package (TM) now 50% Off

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 29, 2024 | 0 Comments
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What renders everything phony, BS, inauthentic, is that everything important is cloaked to hide the deeply artificial nature of the entire setup.

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Slashing $2 Trillion from "The Swamp"–Three Things

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 27, 2024 | 0 Comments
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There is no way to cut federal spending without reconfiguring the economy from the ground up, starting with healthcare.

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"Superheroes" Reflect Our Powerlessness

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 25, 2024 | 0 Comments
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And so we end up back in MovieLand, where we vicariously experience having powers we do not possess in real life.

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#AxisOfEasy 377: The Rising Cost Of Ransomware Payouts Predicted To Reach 113 Million

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 22, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The Rising Cost of Ransomware Payouts Predicted to Reach 113 Million,
Justice Department Targets Google Chrome in Landmark Antitrust Case,
International Justice Brings Phobos Ransomware Mastermind to Trial… this and more in AofE #377

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Anti-Progress, Breakdown, Reset

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 22, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The indicators of breakdown and collapse are all around us, but we don’t dare name them because then they’d become a problem we can’t bury.

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How Do We Fix the Collapse of Quality?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 20, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Every product now has an “extended warranty” admission of the collapse of quality and durability.

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The Cure for What Ails Us: Market Crash and Mass Defaults

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 18, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The system has reached extremes that can no longer be rebalanced by policy tweaks, borrowing another couple trillion dollars or inflating asset bubbles.

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#AxisOfEasy 376: Hot Topic Data Breach: Millions Exposed, Hacker Demands Ransom Amid Retailer Silence

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 15, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Hot Topic Data Breach: Millions Exposed, Hacker Demands Ransom Amid Retailer Silence,
Google’s Vertex AI Fixes Reveal Deep Vulnerabilities in Enterprise AI Security,
Iranian ‘Dream Job’ Attack Targets Aerospace with North Korean-Style Malware… this and more in AofE #376

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The Seeds of Social Revolution: Extreme Wealth Inequality

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 15, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The seeds of social revolution have been sown and sprouted. What we harvest is up to us.

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The Elephant in the Room–No, the Other Elephant

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 14, 2024 | 0 Comments
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No one is going to finger extreme wealth inequality as the proximate cause of what’s going down in the next decade, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t the tectonic cause.

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Machiavelli’s Sage Advice to Transformational Leaders

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 13, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Looming over the entire reformist enterprise are the costs and risks posed by debt.

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The Cost of Owning a Home Is Soaring

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 11, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The soaring costs of home ownership are changing the metrics of unaffordability in important ways.

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Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark is the co-founder of easyDNS and the editor-in-chief of #AxisOfEasy. He is the author of Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS (Packt UK, 2018) and Unassailable: Protect Yourself from Deplatform Attacks & Cancel Culture. 

The Canadian Bitcoiners

The Canadian Bitcoiners

Joey Tweets and Len the Lengend are the hosts of The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast, and you may recognize them as the voices (and faces) behing the AxisOfEasy Podcast. CanadianBitcoiners.com

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.